Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible RHE
New Revised Standard NRS
1 (128-1) <A gradual canticle.> Often have they fought against me from my youth, let Israel now say.
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"Often have they attacked me from my youth" —let Israel now say—
2 (128-2) Often have they fought against me from my youth: but they could not prevail over me.
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"often have they attacked me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me.
3 (128-3) The wicked have wrought upon my back: they have lengthened their iniquity.
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The plowers plowed on my back; they made their furrows long."
4 (128-4) The Lord who is just will cut the necks of sinners:
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The Lord is righteous; he has cut the cords of the wicked.
5 (128-5) Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Sion.
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May all who hate Zion be put to shame and turned backward.
6 (128-6) Let them be as grass upon the tops of houses: which withereth before it be plucked up:
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Let them be like the grass on the housetops that withers before it grows up,
7 (128-7) Who with the mower filleth not his hand: nor he that gathereth sheaves his bosom.
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with which reapers do not fill their hands or binders of sheaves their arms,
8 (128-8) And they that passed by have not said: The blessing of the Lord be upon you: we have blessed you in the name of the Lord.
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while those who pass by do not say, "The blessing of the Lord be upon you! We bless you in the name of the Lord!"
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